wildflowers: or the people that grew me
My room at my mom's smells like a Steve Miller Band concert. It's incense, and it's called Dragon's Blood, which is a very...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
coming home
When I'm in Texas, I'm always struck by a revelation. No, not the revelation that Texas is best.... that one stays with me...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Halloween is cancelled
Ever since the incident at Lowe's with the 6 foot animatronic witch, Toby's been on high alert for all things Halloween. As I'm...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
day uno Tejas
Maybe you missed this, but I'm a Texan. God has momentarily or potentially forever stranded me in Missouri, but He can't take away...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
special kid, normal parent
If you ever told a parent of a special-needs kid that “God picked them”, then stop that. In His sovereignty, did He map...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
rerun: The first Smartypants
Going to start re-running some of my older posts once a week, just to get them circulated. I've written 1,397 posts for this...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Tub-pocalypse, or, letting go
There are things in life that you take for granted. Gravity is a classic example. Other things, like the badness of Mexican food in...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
From the Clarkives: Brynncess is born
When I last left you on the Clarkives, Toby had been born and there was much rejoicing in the land. A very short...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Who's cackling NOW?
Okay, look, I'm a right-wing neo-con fundamentalist Bible-thumper. So this next 300 words or so, griping about Halloween, should not come as a...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Not with the band
I'm working on a new Clarkive. I promise. Now, if you don't pay preeety close attention around here, you might be all like,...
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Monday, October 11, 2010
me, and my stuff, and my psyche, and GUNS
There's not really anything about guns. I was just trying to keep my male readers. Now that we're en route to becoming homeowners,...
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Friday, October 8, 2010
lawyer, lo-fat, louxes
I didn't write yesterday. If you didn't notice that, carry on, nothing unusual here. But if you did, I gotta tell you, I...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
logic: or do you have a Shop-Vac?
I put rice down the garbage disposal. A lot of it, all right? My logic was, there's these sharp blades in there that...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
the meeting and the waiting
I always put my best schizophrenic foot forward on the blog here, dividing myself among myself and saying I feel this way, but...
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Monday, October 4, 2010
your son, my son
I didn’t sleep last night. Did you? I was dreaming about your baby. Is that weird? Did you dream about him too? Did...
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Friday, October 1, 2010
We've been selected! Match!
It looks like we may be coming to the end of this stage of the adoption process. By that, I mean, the stage...
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